Moving On
Chapter 26
"Mr. Potter please accompany me to the headmistress office!" said the secretary coming into his class. Harry knew this was coming, groaning the others all threw him worried looks as he followed her out. Even the Cullen's looked worried and that was saying something.
"Mr. Potter please take a seat!" said the Headmistress crossly.
"Ma'am" said Harry perfectly politely nodding his head curtly sitting down.
"Now I'm sure you realise why I have called you in" she said sternly.
"All I can do is apologise for my actions" said Harry "But if the circumstances were repeated I would do it all over again".
"I do not take sides Mr. Potter but can you tell me why you felt the need to slap Ms. Stanley across the face?" she asked.
"My daughter wouldn't do anything!" protested Mrs. Stanley.
"You will believe her no matter what I say ma'am just like you should really" said Harry "But she was bullying people and saying hurtful things about being orphans. She has both parents she doesn't realise just how lucky she is"
Gasping she rounded on her daughter, seeing her face she couldn't deny the truth. Her daughter had her face hidden and an ashamed look on her face. She had never heard anything like this from her daughter, what had made her say such things about unfortunate children.
"I lost both my parents when I was one years old, only to be given to my aunt she wasn't the best aunt in the world and that's putting it lightly. I'm sorry I lost my anger but saying things like no one wants them isn't the nicest thing in the world" said Harry.
"Never the less she didn't deserve to be hit Mr. Potter" said the headmistress.
"I know and as I said earlier I wish I hadn't hit her but I cannot regret my actions and will accept whatever punishment you see fit even if I am expelled" said Harry.
"You wont be expelled Mr. Potter, you will have detention every day for a week" said the headmistress.
"Yes Ma'am" said Harry politely.
"As for you Ms. Stanley you will have three weeks of detention and if I hear anything of the sort coming from your mouth again you will be suspended" said the headmistress.
"You are grounded for two months lady! That is not how I raised you!" shouted Mr. Stanley.
"Mr. Potter your guardians will be informed I couldn't get them this is why they are not here" said the headmistress.
"Yes Ma'am" said Harry respectfully.
"Both of you will report to me after school tonight for your detentions" said the head teacher. "Now go and get back to your classes" she said softly. She had given them their punishment and by the looks of it - it was just a regrettable incident.
"Thank you ma'am" said Harry respectfully nodding to Mr and Mrs Stanley he left the room.
Harry went back to the classroom and sat down beside Neville, "Is everything alright? What happened?"
"Weeks worth of detention" shrugged Harry not fussy.
"That's it?" asked a shocked Ron turning around in his chair.
"Yes, I've got to go see her after this class is over with" said Harry, "She got the worst three weeks of detention oh and her parents grounded her for two months"
"Good!" said Hermione, she knew it was wrong for Harry to hit her but she knew the girl had deserved it for what she had said. If Harry hadn't hit her Hermione feared she would have hit her herself. She had lost her parents and to hear a girl so cruelly saying that to anyone was horrible.
"She deserved all she got!" said Luna; she had lost her own mother when she was younger then her father she knew how Harry felt.
"She did" said Neville angrily, they needed to let some steam off, and Neville had only stopped himself hitting her because she was a girl. Having lost his parents at the same time as Harry he really wanted to slap her for what she said.
"Look lets leave it at that before one of us ends up bloody expelled" said Harry.
"Did you hear everyone?" asked Ron smirking.
"Yeah," smirked Harry "Everyone was practically hooting that is apart from her friends"
"So you have to stay after" smirked Luna cheesing.
"Unfortunately" sighed Harry. "So much for that race" longing in his voice.
"There will be other times" smirked Hermione.
"Yeah" said Harry "English is boring!" he added as an afterthought.
"Well its not bad, just helps if you weren't so bright and finished what she asked you to do in half an hour" said Hermione sarcastically.
'Teachers coming' sang Fred in their heads.
Sitting right in their seats they looked at the teacher innocently.
"How are you all getting on?" asked the teacher Ms. Moor softly.
"We are finished" said Hermione softly.
"How is that possible?" asked Ms. Moor lifting the work up to inspect it she was surprised when she couldn't find anything wrong with it.
The teacher was very surprised they had done two hours work in less than an hour. She picked up their work; she noticed only the new students had gotten everything finished. She told them they could do as they pleased for the remaining hour that was left.
'That was easy…'Said George.
'Yeah…maybe we should have gone higher up' said Fred.
'You're not the only one' said Hermione, it was dead easy but they couldn't change it now.
'Cullen hasn't stopped staring at you for the past ten minutes' said Fred sounding curious.
Harry's head snapped up looked at Edward Cullen; his head flew away as if it hadn't been there. Harry frowned what on earth could Cullen want? Why was he staring at him? Did the boy think them a threat? No they couldn't Harry knew they looked human; maybe the fact they didn't have a scent was bothering him. Harry smirked and thought to himself let him keep trying to work it out.
'What are you thinking?' asked Luna 'I can feel your amusement miles away'
'Wondering what Cullen could want' said Harry.
'What have you come up with?' asked Neville.
'I think maybe the lack of scent is confusing them' said Harry.
'Are you forgetting the Brawny one saw us in the forest?' said Ron.
'Fuck! I completely forgot about that!' groaned Harry.
'Don't worry the others wont believe him, we don't look like vampires' said Hermione.
'I don't know…they look really close' said Harry.
The bell went, the hour was finally over they gathered their things up unable to believe the two period class was already over. It was finally time to go home, well for everyone else apart from Harry.
"See you later" smirked Hermione as they left.
Harry scowled at the lot of them and made way for the headmistress office to report for his detention.
"What do you want?" asked Ron when he saw the Cullens looking at their cars looking impressed.
"Nothing just stopped that Crawley boy vandalising your car" sneered Rosalie.
"That idiot! if he so much as scratches it I will kill him!" growled Ron it was a bloody present from his friend he wasn't going to allow it to be vandalised.
"Thank you" said Hermione softly.
"You're welcome" said Edward curtly.
"Nice car you have" said Neville looking at Edwards Volvo.
"So much for fitting in though our cars sit out like sore thumbs" sighed Luna fishing her keys out of her bag.
"I'll wait on Harry I dont want him coming out to find his car destroyed" said Ron.
"It's alright I will stay" said Edward.
"Why?" asked Hermione suspicously.
"Well I want to thank him for sticking up for us like that" said Edward.
"He didnt stick up for you" said Hermione curtly "He did it for himself and all of us we all have lost our parents"
"Ah, I'm sorry" said Alice softly.
"Nothing we can do" shrugged Luna.
"That's the best attitude to have" smiled Alice. She liked them alot, she didnt know why but she felt she had alot in common expecially with the blonde one. Her instincts hadnt let her down before so she wasnt going to ignore them.
"I'm glad someone finally brought that bitch down a peg or two" sneered Rosalie stiffly. She hated to admit it but they had won her respect for slapping Jessica and sticking up for their mother 'Esme'.
"Well she has been brought down" smirked Ron "She was taken home after she got grilled"
"How do you know?" asked Jasper.
"She didnt come to English and she has it as well I remember her saying it earlier on" said Ron rolling his eyes.
"We better get going, our guardians will begin to wonder where we are. Dont bother waiting on Harry they are all gone, I doubt they will come back" said Hermione always the most sensible one.
"Race time?" smirked Ron racing for his car at a normal pace not wanting to let the vampires know they were vampires.
The different coloured cars were out and speeding away before they knew it, Edward got into his Volvo the others followed suit.
Everyone loved the fact Harry hit Jessica no one more than me i can assure you :P but he does have to pay for his actions but dont worry they aren't all that bad! read on and find out its well worth it! and i hope you are enjoying it need some ideas on how to spice the story up though so please if you fancy it send some ideas my way! something original : P anyways cya